Staff Backend Engineer

About Remote

Remote is solving global remote organizations’ biggest challenge: employing anyone anywhere compliantly. We make it possible for businesses big and small to employ a global team by handling global payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance. Check out remote.com/how-it-works to learn more or if you’re interested in adding to the mission, scroll down to apply now.

Please take a look at remote.com/handbook to learn more about our culture and what it is like to work here. Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age and abilities to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. You can check out independent reviews by other candidates on Glassdoor or look up the results of our candidate surveys to see how others feel about working and interviewing here.

All of our positions are fully remote. You do not have to relocate to join us!

What this job can offer you

• Complex and meaningful challenges — solving them will enable people and businesses to live and operate in any country of the world.
• Opportunity to have a significant impact on the business — we are still very early in our journey as a company, and each change you make today is amplified by the company's growth.
• Pragmatic and product-focused Engineering culture - read more about our practices and work ethic here.
• A lot of freedom to organize your work and life — you are not bound to daily standups, recurring meetings or other ceremonies.
• Competitive salary, stock options, unlimited PTO and a set of perks and benefits.
• A supportive and kind work environment where you can grow and challenge yourself to do your best work.

What you bring

• Significant experience as a Staff Backend Engineer, which includes building and maintaining complex software, scaling large codebases, software systems and engineering teams
• Solid knowledge and experience in Elixir and Postgres (or similar database)
• Experience in scaling a software system to a large number of contributors and teams
• Experience of mentoring and helping people develop in their careers

Practicals

• You'll report to: Engineering Manager or Engineering Director
• Location: Anywhere in the World
• Start date: As soon as possible

Remote Compensation Philosophy

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

Application process

Roughly 6 hours across 6 weeks

1. Screening call with a Recruiter
2. Interview with an Engineering Manager
3. (async) Code exercise
4. Interview with the team (you'll get a sense of who you'd be working with)
5. Interview with Engineering Director
6. Prior employment verification check

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Benefits

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:

• work from anywhere
• unlimited personal time off (minimum 4 weeks)
• quarterly company-wide day off for self care
• flexible working hours (we are async)
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• mental health support services
• stock options
• learning budget
• home office budget & IT equipment
• budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces

How you’ll plan your day (and life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not aro